Presumably it was flying unusually low.
Like this plane?. A little more context, with Max X snark here
Is Brazil really science fiction?
I just rewatched it this week. Well, I watched a 142-minute movie that had some likeness to the movie I watched in 1985. Plus I watched parts of the 94-minute version and much of Gilliam's commentary.
God, what a dreadful film. Sure it has brilliant parts, but overall it's so relentlessly negative that it's painful to watch. Listening to the commentary doesn't improve matters. We learn why Gilliam wanted to get back at plastic surgeons, but his "satire" bears such little resemblance to its target that it only makes me dislike the film.
And why all the ducts? Gilliam hates the way "modern conveniences" (i.e. indoor plumbing) deface the beauty of Victorian architecture. Too bad the proles won't keep emptying chamber pots so that Gilliam can enjoy his unblemished view of the quaint native houses.
"I think the way you describe Bush's proposal does not make clear the fundamental change it would have made to Social Security. His proposal would have privatized it, turning it from a bedrock people could build their retirement plan upon into just another private investment plan."
I said "he proposed that younger workers be allowed to put 1/3 of their Social Security taxes in private accounts". Is there something inaccurate about that? Saying that he was trying to "take away" Social Security is just inaccurate, inflammatory political rhetoric.
Yes, I, too, remember when Josh Marshall cooked up the phrase "Bush's Social Security Phase-out plan" as a scare tactic. It was dishonest then and it's dishonest now.
I'm not sure why you post the link about the Medicare drug plan. I agree that there are lots of problems with it, but it hardly supports your contention that Bush wants to "terrify the workers with the prospect of a future spent without prescription drugs". Quite the opposite.
I guess if you want to be hypocritical and use inaccurate scare tactics in a post criticizing such, it's your prerogative, I just don't think the effect of the post is going to be what you want.
Don't think I'm a knee-jerk Bush supporter, either. I detest Bush. But please criticize him for his many real faults.
Leave aside the fact that Mr. Bush has done everything in his power to take away Social Security for everyone.
Ummm... by this do you mean when he proposed that younger workers be allowed to put 1/3 of their Social Security taxes in private accounts? That didn't even get introduced into Congress, did it? Isn't it a bit of an exageration--well, a lie, actually--to say that Bush did "everything in his power to take away Social Security?"
terrify the workers with the prospect of a future spent without prescription drugs
It was Bush that created the Medicaid prescription drug program, so... huh? Double huh? In a post where you're criticizing someone for an inaccurate scare message, is it really appropriate to use inaccurate scare tactics?
Poverty rate in NYC: 21.2%
Poverty rate in U.S.: 12.4%
Great ass-kicking there!
Here's another way New York is kicking the rest of the country's butt: New York Is Losing People at Fastest Pace in America. I can't wait until all the other states emulate California and New York. Although if all the other states have citizens leaving, I'm not sure where they'd go.
You're being provincial in one way. In many states, the immigrants are not polyglot from all parts of the world. They speak one language and are from one small part of the world.
I'm sure you didn't mean to apply that assimilation will automatically happen no matter how many immigrants arrive, whether they all speak one language or many, whether they're all from one country or many, whether they arrive all at once or over a period of decades, whether they all live together or are spread out, etc. etc.
Your thesis "That's the way it works. That's the way it's always worked." is just naive extrapolation, but I'm sure that even you would not think assimilation would magically happen if (say) 50 million Chinese all settled in Oregon.
So let's not pretend that any of us actually know what will happen. Details matter and the present situation is not, in fact, the same as the past.
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